Waterproof collar



May 6, 1930. E. P. PARSONS WATERPROOF COLLAR Filed April 12, 1926 I U ErmasfPPmsov-s.

Patented May 6, 1930 Wm-mm ERNEST r. PARSONS, -.O'.E"0LEVELAND, onlmwmenn' M. BALDWIN, ADMINISTRATOR or SAID ERNEST r. PARSONS, DECEASED, Assrenon, rol rrrn PARSON & PARSONS COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO WATERPROOF COLLAR Application filed Apri1-12,

My invention relates to an improvement in water proof collars, and ingeneral my object is to provide a shirt collar made of a material resembling a woven fabric which is water proof and readily cleansed withoutthe usual laundering operations. The material more commonly used is white in color, but may be of any color, and it possesses certain characteristics which make it permanently stiff, although flexible within a certain degree to permit it to be used bothfor the body of the collar and'for the button-hole tabs. The tabs are preferably separate pieces attached to the band of the collar to facilitate manufacture and to permit each tab to be freely flexed and handled in button-holing operations. The strains imposed in attaching the collar to a shirt and subsequently in wearing the collar, center or fall largely on the tabs especially at the button-holes therein. In this Way the tab portion' of the collar which is the least expensive part thereof, may lose its usefulness before the main body of the collar or destroy the desired or proper set of the collar when attached to a shirt. To meet this condition and sub-serve the need of those-who must economize I provide a collar inwhich the tabs may be properly affixed to the body of the collar and also easilyremoved therefrom, thereby permitting the substitution of a new tab for an old worn one, and permitting tabs of varying length or shape to be used in lieu of one another. a

In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a folded collar embodyingmy improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of a portion of the collar showing the interlocking connection for one of the tabs. Fig. 3 is an inner view of one end of the collar showing a button-hole tab attached thereto, and Fig. l is a horizontal section on line 4-t of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an inner view of one end of the collar without a tab; Fig. 6 a separate view of the tab and Fig. 7 a view of the locking piece for the tab.

As delineated, collar 2 is of the folded fold 4. The end edges 5 of band 3 are 1926. .Serial No. 101,276.

which tab extends into and beyond this space and the endedge- 6. Tab Sis flexible and the triangular space permits it to flex more freely and for a-greatr part of its length in its lower half than in itsupper half, which extends upwardly into contact with the folded corner 7/ Consequently the button- 7 hole 9 in tab 8 may be located opposite or relatively nearthe end edge 6 of the outer fold, or in-a vertical plane directly beneath the corner fold 7-,;thus permitting the upper end corners of the body of the collar to be brought closely together when the collar is buttoned as in use.

Tabs 8 are separate pieces of the same water proof material as body 2 .of the collar and twoshort and narroW-slotSlO-lO are cut orpunchedon parallel lines in each tab near their inner ends. Similar slots 1111 are formed in each end of neck-band 3 relatively-near the slanting end edge 5 and parallel with each other and the top fold line of the collar so that when the tab is inserted between the outer and inner 'plys or folds of the collar with the upper edge of the tab in contact with corner 7 the slots in the tab may be caused to register with the slots in the band and the tab will be placed in its proper alignment and setting relatively-to the end edges of the collar... Then to lock-the tab in place A I employ a flexible strip 12 which may be of the same material as the tab or collar, which strip is of the same width as the length of slots 10 and 11 and of such length itself to permit it to be inserted in one direction through. one pair of registering slots and thence in the opposite direction through the other pair of slots. Being flexible the ends of locking strip 12 may be pressed flat against the surfaces through which they have been projected, and in order thatthe locking strip may not work out or become displaced the upper end may be formed with an enlargement or head 14. Preferably,

strip is inserted through the slots so as to whereby the middle portionof said elements are openly exposed at the inside wall of'said' collar band and said head place head 14 and the lower free extremity 15 of the strip between the folds ofthe collar where they will be concealed and protected. The intermediate portion of locking strip 12 is exposed at neck band 3 and bears against the neckwband of theshirt when the collar'is attached thereto as in use. With this locking strip 12 or an equivalent device, the tabs may be removed and replaced at the option of the user, and anew tab may replace a worn button-hole tab, or new tabs of varying, shape may be substituted for others to correct a poor fit or an improper setting on different sizes or variously tailored shirts, Locking of the tab in the way described also'eflectively prevents a shift or'change inposition of the tab relatively to the end to which it is attached. a hat I claim, isi 3 1. A waterproof collar, comprising. a collar band having horizontal slots vertically arranged abo veieach other, button-holetabs having similar slots adapted to register with the slots in the band and'narrow flexible locking strips adapted to extend through the registering slots in said parts, each strip hav ing anenlargement at one end adaptedto prevent release of thestripin one direction and said strip being extended through said registering slots to openly; expose its middle portion at the inside wall of said collar band. 2. A, waterproof collar, of the'folded type, comprising a neck band having a plurality of spaced slots in each end arranged vertically above each other, detachable button-hole tabs having correspondingly spaced slots therein,

, and flexible elements each including an enlargedhead portion extending vertically throughthe slots in said band and tabs to lock the same securely together when assembled,

portions prevent releaseof said elements in one direction, the upwardly, extending edge :of each tab contacting with the folded edge of the corner spending end of the collar and said elements being readily removable to permit the tabs to be detached and othersjsubstituted In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

this locking.

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